Winding machine



Sept. 6, 1938. E. R. DUNCKLEE I WINDING MAHINE Filed Sept. 10, 19:55

INVENTOR. 5; DU/VG/(LIEE ATTORNE 5Q Patented Sept. 6, 1938 zszarn WINDING MACHINE Elmer R. Duncklee, Mystic, Conn., assignor to The Atwood Machine Company, Stonington,

Conn., a corporation of New Jersey Application September 10, 1935, Serial No. 39,912

2 Claims.

This invention relates to textile winding machines and particularly to a yarn or thread winding machine adapted for conversion from a single deck to a double deck winding machine with minimum alterations and additions.

An object of the present invention is to provide spool supporting brackets for a winding machine so that they may be used for mounting spools for a single deck winding machine and, by the addition of a short auxiliary arm pivotally supported on each of the brackets, adapt the machine for a second deck of spools.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a spool supporting bracket for a single deck winding machine having a projection thereon which may be provided with spool supporting bearings carried on a short arm pivotally adjustable upon the projection or a fixed part of the bracket so that these additional bearings may 0 be used for supporting spools of a second deck or series of spools in engagement with the friction driving Wheels used for the spools of the first deck.

And finally it is an object of the present invention to provide a winding machine with brackets having fixed bearings therein, the brackets being adapted to have supplementary bearings mounted thereon for independent adjustment relative to the fixed bearings.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention includes the features of construction and operation set forth in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

In the accompanying drawing annexed hereto and forming a part of this specification, I have shown my invention embodied in a standard form of winding machine, but it will be understood that the invention can be otherwise embodied and that the drawing is not to be construed as defining or limiting the scope of the invention, the claims appended to this specification being relied upon for that purpose.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a portion of a winding machine having the present invention applied thereto; and

Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section of the parts shown in Fig. 1.

In the above mentioned drawing, I have shown but one embodiment of the invention which is now deemed preferable, but it is to be under-- stood that changes and modifications may be made within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of the invention.

relative to said projection and having bearings thereon for adjacent ends of adjacent spools of a second series;

and sixth, a traverse bar supporting member clamped to said bracket and retaining said bracket in position on Said machine.

Referring more in particular to the figures of the drawing, I

provide an arm or bracket I0 outstanding from and secured to the winding machine side bars H and I2.

One of the particular brackets illustrated is provided with an extension in which is rotatably mounted a roll H on which a traverse bar M may reciprocate while being supported within a recess formed in the extension.

It will be understood that butfew of the brackets H! with rolls i 3 Will be required in any one machine.

Those without the extensions are similar to that shown in the upper portion of Fig.

1 and each type has provision for supporting spools of either one or two series.

On each type of bracket It there are provided bushings l5 forming bearings for the ends of adjacent spools it. As is usual in bearings of this type, the bearing for one end of a spool is in the form of a recess and the bearing for the opposite end of an adjacent spool is an inclined flat surface. Preferably the bushings forming the bearings are of wood.

In practice each spool i6 is mounted on a spindle I1, the ends of which extend to and engage the bearings in bushings l5.

ll adjacent the A small pulley IS on the spindle end of the spindle bearing having the inclined flat surface rests upon and is driven by a friction wheel I 9 of the usual type mounted below each spool It.

The above described parts are standard and those usually found in winding machines of the type employing the present invention. Further description therefore will be unnecessary.

On the brackets H] are provided vertically extending projections 20 disposed between the bushings l5 and the end attached to the frame rods H and I2.

On the projection 2|] for each -in the bracket l0.

of the brackets I is a pivotal bearing or connection for a short auxiliary arm 2| The arms 2| for each bracket ID are similar to each other and each is provided with a bushing 22 similar in every way to the bushings provided directly A second series or deck of spools 23 may therefore be supported upon the brackets ID by means of these arms 2|, these spools 23 being rotated by spindles 24 having pulleys 25 engaging the friction wheel Hi.

In order to pivotally adjust the arm 2| upon the projection 20, there is provided an arcuate slot 26 in the projection. A screw 21 having a nut on its outer end extends through an opening in the arm 2| and through the arcuate slot 26 so that the arm 2| may be clamped in any adjusted or predetermined position.

To provide a traverse bar 28 for the second deck of spools 23, there is provided a support 29 having a roller 30 therein and permitting reciprocation of the bar 28 in the same manner as bar M in the extension of bracket |0. Forconvenience the support 29 is made a part of the clamping member 3| for the bracket.

The brackets l0 supplied with single deck winding machines in which spoo1s|6 only are employed would have the projection 20 with the necessary opening and slot 26, but there would be no arms 2| pivotally mounted thereon. The clamping members 3| would not have the extensions forming the supports 29. So equipped the winding machine would be substantially a standard single deck winder. To convert a Wind'- ing machine as above described into a double deck winder, it would be necessary only to add the arms 2| upon the brackets H] which could be done without disassembling the machine, and to substitute the clamping members 3| shown in the figures and the second traverse bar 28 for the parts without extensions 29. Thus changed over the machine would be doubled in capacity with the slight additions necessary without the necessity of rebuilding the machine. The adjustments necessary to get proper driving contact for the pulleys l8 and 25 on the spindles l1 and 24 for the spools l6 and 23 with friction wheel I9 may be made independently for each deck.

With the bearings l5 properly adjusted in any usual manner when the machine is originally set up as a single deck winding machine it is only necessary to adjust the pivotal position of the arms 2|, when converting the machine to a double deck winder, to give the proper'contact of the pulleys 25 with the friction wheel I9. This adjustment does not affect the previous adjustment of the brackets or of the fixed bearings I5 therein.

I claim:

1. In a winding machine in combination, supporting brackets mounted on said machine having fixed bearings adjacent their outer ends for a series of spools being wound, driving wheels rotatablymo-unted below said brackets for rotating spools thereon, arms pivotally mounted intermediate the ends of said brackets having bearings therein at their free ends for supporting spools of a second series of spools being wound, said second series of spools being driven from said driving wheels for said first series of spools,

means to secure said brackets in fixed position relative to said wheels, and means to secure said pivotally mounted arms on said brackets in adjusted positions relative to said wheels.

2. In a winding machine in combination, supporting brackets mounted on said machine having fixed bearings adjacent their outer ends for a series of spools being wound, driving wheels rotatably mounted below said brackets for rotating spools thereon, projections formed intermediate said brackets, arms pivotally mounted on said projections having bearings therein at their free ends for supporting spools of a second series of spools being wound, said second series of spools being driven from said driving wheels for said first series of spools, means to secure said brackets in fixed position relative to said wheels, and means on said projections to secure said pivotally mounted arms in adjusted posi tions relative to said wheels.

ELMER R. DUNCKLEE. 

